The elements : a visual history of their discovery
Ball, Philip, 1962-2021
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This volume offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and transforming substances into a rational modern science that provides us with new materials, drugs, and much else.
Main title:
The elements : a visual history of their discovery / Philip Ball.
Author:
Ball, Philip, 1962-, author
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780500024539 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2532441
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